There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Empire and liberty.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘